| OCR Text |
Show 102 TilE ADrL'. .Y. TURES OJ? IIUC'ItLEIJL'lli~l~ J<'I1Y. l\~. - then he reckon d it w·ouldn,t b no harm to borrow the ot h r . o we talk '<1 it over all on night, drifting along down 1 h ri v r, trying to Dlake up our mind.' w h cther to drop t hr waterm lon , or th cant elopes, or th n1u.-l11nclon., or \vhat. But toward~ daylight \Ye got it all scttl '<1 . at i~·;factory, and contlndc<. l to drop crahapples and p ~innnon~. \Yc ·wnrn 't fe :.Jin cr jn. t right bcfor' Uwt, hut H wns all cotnfortablc now. l was glad the \vny it c:un out, too, h cau rrnhnpplcs ~1in't e\·er good, ancl t h p'sinnuon. \von1cln't he ri pr for two or t hrce Jnonth:-~ y~~t. \Ye ·hot a water-fowl, now and tlH·n, i lwt got 11p too early in the n1ornjng or clidit't. go to bccl c'arly t nongh in th e\· ni11g. Tak(' it an around, ,,-c li\"C(l pn·tty lrigh. The fifth night below f-It. Loni · \VC had a big ~tonn aft r 1nidnight, wit.lt a power of thunder and lightning, and tl1 r rain poured down inn olill .-h 'rt. \Ye .. tay cl in th wigwam and let the raft take care of iL,elf. vYh n the lightning glared ont Wt' could sec a hig . traight river ahead, and high rocky l>lnff:-; on both ·icl<'.'. By-ancl-hy .'Hy._ I, "If 'l-lo, Ji1n, looky yonder!., It wnf-' a s te~nnboat that l1acl killed hf\rsclf on a rock. \\re wn .· d~·if~ing stn,tight down f<·n· l1er. The ljght ning showed hc-'r very du;bnct. Rhe \ra le1nnng OYer, with part of her npprr deck ;1bove water, and you could ·re C\'ery liU le chi1nbly-gny cl<'al1 nncl cl ar, and a cl)air hy the big bell, with an old ..louch lwt hanging on th bac:k of it when the fla ·he· co1ne. ~r :1, it ~ ing awny in the night, and stonny, and all so n1y ·t enou -hk , I felt just the way any oth r boy would a felt " ·hen I see that wreck laying there so mournful and loneso1nc i~ the middle of ~he river. I wanted to get aboard of her antl .. :link around a httl , and see what tbere wa there. ~0 I .. tlj• i: " Le' land on her, Jirn. ,, But Jim was dead again tit, at fir~t. J-[e says: BOARDIJY. G TilE 1VRECJ{. 10:1 "I doan' want to go fool'n 'long er no wrack. \V ,s doiu' blame' 'v 11, en w better let blnm ' well alon , a' cle good book 1y. . Like as n t cl y· a ·watclunan on dat ''Tack." "\Vatch1nan your granchnoth )r ! ,, I ~ay~ · ' t hrrc aiu't nothing to w·atch bnt t hr texa.· and the pilot -llOll~P; t1l1U ll t l yon re~"'kon anybody\; going to r ·k his liCe for a 1l' X<lS a1Hl a pilot-house nch a night as this, when it\; likely Lo break up an<l wash off do\vn i h riv r any minnt ? " .J irn ronldn ,t .'ay nothinrr to that, o he <li<ln'L t ry. "And be ·idP:-'," I say .. , '• we 1night borrow HOln thin a- worth having, out of t h<' captain\. ·tat romn. Rec gars, 1 het you-and cost fi v cents apil't<' olid ca .. h. St mnboai capt a in is always rich, and g<'t. ."i.xt y dollar" a month, ancl they <lon't car a crnt ·what a thi11g C'Osi~, yon know, 1 ng as i hry \rani it. • tirk a candle in your poe] ~ t; I ~1.n't re t, Jim, till we g i v her a rtunJnaging. J>o yon rr kon Tom Sawy r vronhl ever go by t his thing r ~oL for pi<', lu· wouldn't. IIe\l ea1l it an a<lv ut nr<\-that'~ 'rlr:1t hr d cal l it; an<l b '<.1 lnn<l on that wr ck if iL "-a: hi~ la~t act. And wouldn't he tbr \Y .'Lyl into it r-wouldn'L he ~pn•:ul hinu;elf, nor nothing? ~Thy, you\l think iL \Yas Christoph \r C''hnnhus cti.·cov ring J{ing<lOin-Conle. I wish Tmn N:lwy<'r 1CU·'i here.'' Jim h grnmbl d a litU , but gi,·c in. l [ . aid we Inn.Jn't talk any more than w coul<l h lp, and then talk 1nighty lo\\. The lightning showed u s the \\Teck again, ju t in titne, a1ul Wt' fetched the ~tabboarcl <.1 )n·ick, and 1nade fa .t t h r . The deck was hirrh out, herr. " Te ¥vent sn aking <lown th<' .·1 pe of it to labbo:rd, in the dark, toward the texa.', feeling our way ·1o¥v with our fe t, and spreading on,r hands ~ut to . fend off the guy , for it ''*a so clark we c.ouldn t se no :1~11 of them. Pretty oon we struck the forward end of the kyhght, and clumb on to it; and the next step fetched u in front of th · captain's door, which wa open, and by Jimminy, away clown |
